In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960209081109.55640A-100000 at itsa.ucsf.edu>,
Bert Gold <bgold at itsa.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>>>>PRIDE OF AUTHORSHIP
>>>Now we have two conservatives in America, namely Citizens William F.
>Buckley and Stephen Forbes, espousing views first articulated by the left.
>>Buckley has devoted an entire issue of his National Review to the
>proclaimation that the 'drug war is lost' and 'legalization' is now
>our only hope for a sane nation.
>>Forbes has claimed an edge over Dole in the current Repubican
>New Hampshire Primary Polls, largely extolling the virtues a the flat tax.
>>Time magazine devotes its entire issue this week to a lengthly exploration
>of the flat tax concept, originally proposed by none other than
>the California 'flake' Jerry Brown.
>>What have we now in American Politics? Conservatives gone fanciful?
>Attempting to reach conciliation with the left? Or simply drunk with Power?
>>Analysis of the narcissism of the 90s leaves us with no more startling
>conclusion than it would in the ancient Greek Myths: viz. That they
>will wither away in their own image: But not before killing that
>which made them.
>>For me, as a jew, it feels odd to be considering pride as a sin.
>Because my understanding, though feeble, is that that is what Jesus
>preached.
>>What is clear for me is that neither Buckley nor Forbes, oddly both
>magazine magnates, are being honest in attributing credit for their
>ideas. Each appears to be appropriating the ideas of another without
>respecting their originator. And, as it happens, in the case of both
>of these ideas, the originators are on the left.
>>In an era where form is more important than substance, why should
>we expect correct attribution from our leaders? Perhaps because it
>is only by following their example that we shall set our own. And
>if the examples of our current leadership are to be followed,
>future moral poverty will be widespread indeed.
>>It worries me that such obvious plagiarism can be so easily rationalized,
>that our leaders will engage any policy which permits their aggrandizement,
>and that our people will believe any communication from a charmed
>class of messengers, no matter how hollow.
>>Bert Gold
>San Francisco
>
Nicely put, but why don't you use his real name?
It's Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr. (Call me Steve).
Larry Racies